Have you ever actually looked closely at your electric bill? What a joke! Here are the details of my bill.
Cost of Electricity Used:
- Basic service charge
- Delivery service charge
- Environmental benefits service charge
- Federal environmental improvement surcharge
- Competition rules compliance charge
- System benefits charge
- Power supply adjustments
- Metering
- Meter Reading
- Billing
- Generation of electricity on-peak
- Generation of electricity off-peak
- Transmission and ancillary services
- Transmission cost adjustment
Taxes and fees:
- Regulatory assessment
- State sales tax
- County sales tax
- City sales tax
- Franchise fee
After crunching the numbers I spent roughly 25% on actual electricity and the other 75% on other fees and taxes!
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